Author: Pawe Gowacki
I have just recently discovered a super easy way of adding custom icons to Delphi components. Traditionally you had to start from a rectangular bitmap of a specific size and color depth and then use Image Editor. This is documented in many places including Stackoverflow.
After a little bit of googling I have come across another Stackoverflow post that inspired my to give…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
Summer is a great time to catch up with books that you have on your shelf, but do not have time to read. Obviously I would suggest starting from my recently released “Expert Delphi”, but there are plenty of other interesting books to look at. I have…
To follow up with our recent FireDAC in Depth with Cary Jensen we have a series of FireDAC webinars to help you learn more about everyone’s favorite database access framework. Each webinar is offered at 8 AM, 1 PM and 8 PM US Central Time to provide access in all…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
My “Expert Delphi” book has been published by PACKT Publishing and is currently available for a limited time for just $10 at https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/expert-delphi. The book is about how to become developer super hero and…
How to view Salesforce data in RAD Studio Data Explorer using the Enterprise Connectors for Salesforce.
With the Enterprise Connectors for Salesforce, you gain access to live Salesforce data within RAD Studio, abstracting the data into tables, views, and stored procedures…
In this episode of the Podcast @ Delphi.org we talk with Cary Jensen about his new book Delphi in Depth: FireDAC and the upcoming Delphi Developer Days which Cary puts on with Dr. Bob Swart. Nick Hodges, our co-host, was a previous host of Delphi Developer Days with Cary…
This is part of my series on developing with Chrome OS
You need to put your Chromebook in Developer Mode First.
Enabling ADB Debugging
https://developer.android.com/topic/arc/index.html#setup
First you have to allow ADB through the firewall. Go to crosh ([CTRL][ALT][T]) and…
This is part of my series on developing with Chrome OS
Chromebook Developer Mode
You need to put your Chromebook in Developer mode, which wipes the local storage, so you are better off doing it sooner rather than later. Also keep in mind it may void your…
There is a great post by Sarina Adding a style selector to your application showing how to have a FMX application with multiple style books, and a combo box listing the styles. When the app is running, a user can select one of the style in the combo box and the FireMonkey…
Google’s Chrome OS is based on their Chrome Browser and runs on Chromebooks, which are hybrids of a tablet and a laptop. They are designed with the assumption that the majority of what we do nowadays is done through the browser. Google announced a while ago that they would…
